Resources for Robert Goldstone's Course on Experiments and Models of Collective Behavior at the International Summer School in Cognitive Science
Hubnet experiments on collective behavior that I have prepared as sample models
Collective Foraging
: How do groups of people dynamically distribute themselves to resources? Intuitive arrow keys (that may overload event buffer!)
Collective Foraging II
: Same scenario of allocating group members to resources. People point to where they want to move.
Common Pool Resource Foraging
: How do people coordinate their collection of
renewable
resources?
The Wisdom of the Crowds:
When people make educated guesses, how are they informed by their neighbors' guesses? Guessing proportions of red circles
The Wisdom of the Crowds II:
People are again making judgments and exchanging opnions. Answering trivia pursuit questions
Coordinating Resource Use Decisions:
People can harvest some resource by themselves, or try to coordinate with others to harvest richer resources
Collective Pathways:
What kinds of roads does a group create when its members are motivated to take advantage of their predecessors' paths?
Web Resources
Netlogo
: A programming environment for designing complex systems
Starlogo
: An alternative to Netlogo
Agent-based computational economics
: Leigh Tesfatsion's excellent repository of things dealing with Collective Behavior
GEEP (Group Experimentation Environments Project)
: Our on-line site for ongoing collective behavior experiments
Drawball
: An on-line experiment in collective drawing
Iowa Electronic Markets
: One of the earliest on-line prediction markets
Gwap
: Dyadic on-line games to improve artificial intelligence
Collective Intelligence Blog
Swarm References
: Information about swarm intelligence and swarm algorithms
Course Resources
Homework
: A simplistic political world on which to hone your Netlogo skills
Netlogo commands
: Some introductory Netlogo commands and programs